On The Same Paige with Paige Leacey

In this episode, I get sweaty with Ruby Shine – the co-owner of Trybe Wellness and my best friend of 18 years. Rubes and I talk through my hysteria and extreme panic following a recent date, we contemplate our voyages moving back to our hometown of Byron Bay after COVID hit and the changes that had occurred in us after spending a decade living away. We examine our relationships with our dads and h...

In this episode I chat to Gemma Clarke – my Bay FM radio co-host slash sometimes-boss slash long-time close friend. We melt in the sauna over a discussion about how we manage (and often mismanage) co-dependency in friendships, striving and struggling to meet the diverse needs of the people we love, and dart between talking about falling in love, sharing financial responsibly in partnership, and Ge...

My guest this sweat sesh is Alice. She is without a doubt one of the most compassionate and emotionally intelligent people I know (and she also happens to be a sex worker). We turn up the heat over a conversation about privacy, power and putting a price on sex. I tell her a story about an ex-boyfriend reaching out to me after reading an essay I penned on having a secret , and we swap notes on what...

My second ever guest is my wonderful friend Bryn Newmann. Bryn is a multi-skilled creative who earns her keep as a marketing consultant and website designer. She also runs freelance art workshops in the Northern Rivers and it’s probably important to note that she is 100% responsible for the sick aesthetic of the @losing.my.cool Instagram. But what makes Bryn an incredible woman outside of her art...

Mardi and I get hot and sweaty as I explain an incident I got myself into defending a girl at a party after she was casually called “dumb” by a guy she’d slept with at that same party. We go deep on toxic patriarchal behaviours, constructive ways to handle gendered insults, that all sexes need to come to the table with more commitment to having peaceful relationships, and we examine how some “bant...

Losing My Cool is a podcast by Paige Leacey about trying to stay warm in a world full of "cool" people.  @losing.my.cool SEASON ONE COMING JULY 1ST. Song: Monarch Photos: Byrn Newmann Audio production: Alain De Carne